pineapple_lingenfelter: I work at pearl Harbor and would like to thank you
for remembering what happened here. This will help
the world live it, not just those who were there
60 years ago. Thank you.

pearl_harbor_chat: Well, thanks, Pineapple!

pearl_harbor_chat: It's a pleasure being here, and thanks for having us
as the Navy's guest.



seanstiny: what made you choose jon voight to play F.D.R.?

pearl_harbor_chat: Jon Voight cornered me at an Oscar party a couple of
years ago.

pearl_harbor_chat: Said that he understood we were doing the movie and
claimed that he knew FDR better than anybody.

pearl_harbor_chat: Though he didn't really look like him .... there's the
make-up job.

pearl_harbor_chat: It's literally the only scene I've ever seen where
some of the other actors applauded him five times
after doing some of his scenes.


oppiz97: What was it like working with Cuba Gooding Jr.?
pearl_harbor_chat: Cuba is an amazingly well liked actor.
pearl_harbor_chat: He's so talented ... not only that, but one of the
nicest guys to work with.
pearl_harbor_chat: He almost did kill me though, when he was shooting a
50-caliber gun and I was underneath it, shooting
literally in the deck below him.
pearl_harbor_chat: The concussion was so strong on my brain that I thought
it would shut my organs off.
pearl_harbor_chat: The footage of it is going to be in the DVD ... it's
quite hysterical.



footandmouthdisease2000: will the dvd version be a rated R version
meaning an uncut version? If yes, that will
be great.

pearl_harbor_chat: I think we will do some things ... add some things...
but I'm pretty proud of the movie where it stands and
I don't feel the ratings board really interfered.

pearl_harbor_chat: I was obligated, doing a movie this size, to give it a
PG-13.

pearl_harbor_chat: The movie is violent, but we do things to hide the
violence a little bit.

pearl_harbor_chat: You definitely feel violence, but we mask a little
bit of it.



gilly_cious: Have you tried any new techniques...something that hasn't
been tried before?

pearl_harbor_chat: We invented a special lens for some of these hospital
scenes. A special anamorphic lens where it would blur
out the sides to make it more of a subjective point of
view.

pearl_harbor_chat: We invented some aerial techniques because I wanted
this to be the most technologically advanced aerial
movie ever done.

pearl_harbor_chat: We invented several camera rigs on certain types of
war birds ... where these cameras could flip and roll
from the other planes just like the planes they were
shooting.

pearl_harbor_chat: There is a lot of live flying in the movie where there
are real planes that people will think are just effect
shots.

pearl_harbor_chat: And George Lucas had asked to see our effects reel ...
he's not one for many compliments, but he said this
was the best effects work he'd ever seen.

pearl_harbor_chat: Since I worked for George Lucas when I was 15 ...
I take that as a huge compliment.



dsja_2000: was it difficult finding vintage plans, military vehicles,
etc.?

pearl_harbor_chat: There's certain groups that restore these planes.
There's only a certain amount in America.

pearl_harbor_chat: It was hard finding some ships.

pearl_harbor_chat: We had to get some battleships like the USS Arizona
... we had to shoot some down in Houston.

pearl_harbor_chat: We shot on the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi.

pearl_harbor_chat: We worked on a lot of old ships here in Pearl Harbor.

pearl_harbor_chat: The trick was shipping everything over here.



nargueta: Hi Michael. Nelson from michaelbay.com., is the falling shot
of the bomb all CGI or composites?

pearl_harbor_chat: Let me just say ... we have about 30 of those shots.

pearl_harbor_chat: There is stuff that no one has seen on any trailer or
any commercial.

pearl_harbor_chat: That shot ... it's great, but we have ones that are
much better.

pearl_harbor_chat: And, yes, it was shot from a helicopter at different
altitudes.

pearl_harbor_chat: We melded the film together and those were digital
battleships.



worny_2000: How important is the advertising campaign to movies like this
one?

pearl_harbor_chat: I think the marketing effort has been great.

pearl_harbor_chat: i personally don't think they need to market as
heavily as they are right now because the awareness
of the trailer has hit unprecedented levels.

pearl_harbor_chat: The awareness on this movie is HUGE.



simiansidewalk: Is there any story/remake that you want to do

pearl_harbor_chat: I think I'm going to take a little vacation.

pearl_harbor_chat: It's been 2 years.

pearl_harbor_chat: A lot of hard work.

pearl_harbor_chat: I definitely want to go smaller.

pearl_harbor_chat:


shaun_h_99: If I ever go into acting, the top of my list of someone to
work with would be Bruce Willis. . .what was your
relationship with him as a director like?

pearl_harbor_chat: Bruce is a great guy to work with. He's very funny.
He keeps you laughing. Sometimes I have to scold him
to stop making jokes on the set so we can get some
work done.

pearl_harbor_chat: On Armageddon I felt like a camp counselor because
everyone was trying to one-up each other on jokes.
Ben Affleck. Steve Buschemi.



planethollywoodgurl: will you ever use a digital camera like George Lucas
is for E2

pearl_harbor_chat: Um .... I really am more old-fashioned. I like the
quality of film.

pearl_harbor_chat: I personally don't think we're there with the digital
yet.

pearl_harbor_chat: I like the light qualities you get from the flicker and
the glow from the screen.

pearl_harbor_chat: I think in a few more years it's going to be tremendous,
though.



abvnblw1: does the movie glorify war?

pearl_harbor_chat: Absolutely NOT does it glorify war.

pearl_harbor_chat: It's silly to think that in the Navy's darkest hour,
that this would in any way glorify war.

pearl_harbor_chat: We're just showing a bit of history and how it happened.
pearl_harbor_chat: We get the essence of what happened in Pearl Harbor.

That's what we're trying to do in this movie.

Yahoomc: Thanks for joining us today, Michael...


planethollywoodgurl: congrats on all your hard work


planethollywoodgurl: I really like your work


brian_warner19: may 25 is the big day is gonna take me an hour to get
in the movie theaters to go see pearl harbor

pearl_harbor_chat: Thanks everyone for joining us. I hope you like the
movie.